Analysis Of Bootstrapper By Mardi Jo Link

William joins the military and while he’s gone Margaret invites William’s mother Mrs. Anglin and brother Marshall to her parents’ house for dinner, which doesn’t go well because Mr. and Mrs. Ryder refuse to sign in an even more awkward silence. William comes back injured but not crippled and they live with her parents until he’s accepted into college. Margaret’s parents are sad to see her go but as soon as they can they go see her and it was unannounced. Margaret’s parents are very upset to see the place where she’s living and go to sign how upset they are that William hasn’t provided better for their daughter. Her parents never visit her again. The next time Margaret sees her parents is when she’s very pregnant to let them know that they’ll be grandparents. Lastly William and Margaret move into better housing where they will raise their child till William graduates from college. Margaret and William invite everyone to their baby shower after the birth of their son and her parents show up after everyone has gone. Margaret is upstairs with her son and William answers the door and her parents surprise her. When they see each other all the turmoil between them is gone and they enjoy each other’s company. The movie ends with Janice’s retirement party where Abel, Margaret, William and their son go and Janice’s signs a speech that Margaret

The final stage in Janie’s development as a woman is her marriage with the twelve years younger Tea Cake. Both are totally in love with each other and Janie lives a live she has never lived before. She experienced a big change when she moves from her formal live as “Mrs. Major” (43) in Eatonville to the Everglades where Tea Cakes teaches her how to farm, fish and hunt and introduces a totally new rural life to her. Janie described her lifestyle in these days with "...we ain't got nothin' tuh do but do our work and come home and love" (127).

Phoenix, Arizona was their next destination. Jeanette’s original thought of living with their grandma again were cast aside as Mary reveals that she passed away during their stay at Battle mountain. Upon arrival the family stays in a fairly large house that was left in Grandma Smith’s will for Mary. Things were positive at first as the usually are, but slowly took a wrong turn as they usually do. Jeanette attends a new school where she is bullied for her intelligence, however this conflict soon ends when her brother Brian steps in and stands up for her. Rex got another job and supplied for the family as usual. Just as things were getting nice, Christmas day comes. This time the kids actually had real gifts, they each got a bike as well as small gifts they bought each other. Everything is looking up until their father got intoxicated and accidently burned their presents after opening up his, and using the lighter inside of it. Their father loses yet another job, and things tumble downwards. From people breaking into their house, touching the children, and just sleeping in the house. The big moment comes when

She opens the door to her childhood, beginning with when she was 3 years old and boiling her own hot dog by standing on top of the chair to reach the stovetop. While doing that, her pink dress catches on the fire because of which gets her horribly burned. She spends a few days in the hospitals and enjoys it too, because she is getting food on time and is not left starving. One day her dad shows up and they run off out of the hospital without paying the bills of her treatment. That night her family leaves the town and move to another place, taking as much stuff as possible with them. Most of her childhood memories involve her whole family- mom, dad, Jeanette, Lori, Brian, and later on Maureen -moving from one desert towns to another, settling in as long as her dad can hold the job. This happened more frequently due to the dad’s alcoholism coupled with his paranoia about the organized society and the state. One of the towns they stayed in was Battle Mountain, Nevada, where they spend a few months. Jeanette and her brother Brian spent many hours exploring the desert and collecting rocks. Even their mother got a job as a teacher and

The hard-working ranch father loved his son but also lived by a realist unlike his son, “Last chance son, you had better pick a horse that you have some hope of riding one day” (Harrison 500). Kenneth’s mother Nell was very supportive to her son’s dreams and hopes of owning a colt. An author of New York times Rebecca Mead states, “We see private bedroom conversations between Rob and Nell, in which the mother, who recognizes her son’s dreaminess as an admirable sensitivity, not as an irritating handicap, challenges her stubborn husband’s rulings”. This support for her son is shown when the little filly is injured and Ken’s mother makes a poultice for the injury every

“Dad lost his job,”(67) Lori informed Jeanette. Which was not a surprise, but it was the job that he had for the longest period of time. Because Rex lost his job and the family had no real source of income the Walls were left with crumbs to eat. But Mary Rose could not let her family live a life of constant worrying about food, so she gets herself a job. A job as a teacher at the school which Lori, Jeanette and Brian attend. This is the first time that Mary Rose has a job and it shows Jeanette as well as the other children that women are also allowed to have jobs and make money. That men are not the only ones who are allowed to

They moved together to the Muck in the Florida Everglades and lived in Tea Cake's Shanty after the death of Joe. Tea Cake and Janie spent all the time they had together. They remained in constant tune with the nature and even went fishing together. This was the type of lifestyle Janie envisioned all her life. All of Janie’s previous relationships was based off of the spouse. Janie was never allowed to be herself and live the life she wanted. Tea Cake let her be herself. He loved her as she was and accepted all she dreamed of. He encouraged her to be what she wanted to be, to follow her goals, her dreams, and her aspirations. Janie had finally found her the man she had always been looking for. She loved him with everything she had. Janie would do anything for Tea Cake. They had the kind of everlasting love that she had hoped for all her life. Thing were going well for the new couple until a bad storm hit and Tea Cake gets bit by a dog trying to save Janie. Tea Cake ultimately get rabies and begins to act so distraught that Janie is forced to kill him. She killed Tea Cake in loving manner and could not bear watch him suffer

Spring comes; school lets out for the cotton season. Rumor says that T.J. is spending more time with Melvin and R. W. and that they are just using him. One night in early summer, some nearby farmers come by and tell Papa not to buy anything for them on his next trip to Vickburg. Granger amongst other plantation owners are threatening to decrease pay and even kick the tenants off their land then put the men on a chain gang if they do not begin shopping at the Wallace store. All but seven families stop ordering goods from Vicksburg. Mama feels this is not enough to hurt the Wallaces but Papa will not give up. On the next trip to Vicksburg they are ambushed. While Papa is repairing a sabotaged wagon wheel, a truck pulls up and fires--a bullet grazes his head. Then the horse rears up and pulls the wagon wheel over Papa's leg. L. T. makes short work of the men however, who turn out to be the Wallaces, breaking Dewberry Wallace's back.

Brian points out that mom has a lot of options to earn money, for she could sell her ring, she could sell her family’s land, and she could also sell her house. Rex gets Tuberculosis and he has to stay in the hospital for six weeks. He gets better and Jean says she may not finish college because she needs $1,000 dollars. Rex wins that money gambling and she uses it to pay for her college. Then her parents find a home for free and they invite Jean to see it, for she feels that they are in the right place with the right people. Jean moves in with her boyfriend, Eric, and then after four years they get married. Jean then finds out that her mother’s brother died and that his land is worth one million dollars. Jean wonders why her mother doesn’t sell it so that she wouldn’t be poor any more, but she says its because its family land and they need to keep it that way. Brian becomes a police officer, Lori becomes an illustrator, and Maureen does drugs. Maureen moves in with her parents and when her mom tells her to move out, she stabs her and gets arrested. After the arrest the whole family splits. Rex gets sick and dies from a heart attack. Jean got divorced and remarried John and at the end of the book

They were always hungry and their parents were not working because Rose Mary was lazy and Rex was drunk most of the time. The siblings had to fetch food from trashcans at school in stealth mode. Maureen solved the problem by going over to her friend’s house and had dinner with them. Brain, Lori, and Jeannette all had to scavenge for their food and clothes. Until one day they just had enough essentially, leading them to leave their parents and began the journey to acquire a prosperous life. They began saving up for the expenses of transportation, Lori made posters and Jeanette worked in Jewelry store and bay-sat and Brain mowed lawns. They were saving it in a piggy bank, but one day Jeanette came home to an empty piggy bank, she knew it was her father. When Lori, and Bran found out they were furious the siblings all waited patiently for Rex to arrive. They waited three days but when arrived he was drunk and not long after pasted out. The sibling realized it was pointless arguing with Rex, he just made them feel even more miserable. Eventfully another opportunity came up; Mrs. Sanders offered Jeanette and opportunity to escape by offering her a job in Iowa babysitting and a buying her ticket back home. Jeanette change the offer to ticket to New York city and it was a deal. The twist was as bad as Jeanette wanted to live

"chapter 14" it is Ann's birthday and she is turning sixteen years old they had chicken and cake in her new oven. When Mr. Loomis was sleeping he heard Ann playing the piano, but it faded away each time and he came back trying to listen to it. Mr. Loomis reached another milestone he wanted to eat without any help from Ann because to him it feels like he is a baby again. He is getting a little angry almost scolding Ann for not planting the corn and soybeans all because he thought they would run out of food when they have enough to survive.

Janie falls in love with the Everglades, everything there is new and strange. Tea Cake finds them a room, and he decides that he will pick beans during the day and at night, he will play guitar and roll dice. Once the season begins they live a comfortable life picking beans. Tea Cake teaches Janie how to shoot a gun, and she eventually becomes a better shot than him. Once the season starts, poor workers start to move in to town, and soon all the houses are taken, those who could not get houses sleep in the fields at night. The bars soon come to life and all night there is loud music spilling out of them. Tea Cake and Janie’s house becomes the center of the Everglades; people hang out at their house and listen to Tea Cake play his music. In the beginning of the season, Janie mainly stays home and cooks meals for Tea Cake, but he soon starts to gets lonely working in the field alone all day. He begins to leave work early so he can see her, Janie decides that it would be best if she would join him in their field picking beans that they can be together all day everyday. Janie wonders what the people of Eatonville would say if they

Quoyle, Bunny and Sunshine begin to have “Tea in Wavey’s crazy kitchen if he [Quoyle] was done for the day. If he had to work late, sometimes they stayed with her. She cut Quoyle’s hair. He stacked her wood on Saturday morning. Sensible to eat dinner at the same table now and then.

Minny Jackson is married to Leroy, and they have 5 children. She is a very strong women, but who doesn’t take anything from anyone but her husband. Leroy often beats her when he is drunk, but she doesn’t want to tell anyone because she is too embarrassed and looks past it because she loves him so much. It all starts out when Minnie is working for Miss Hilly’s Mother, Miss Walters. Minny does nothing wrong until Miss Hilly makes a rumor about her and tells everyone that Minny has been stealing from her mother. She is later fired and jobless. Aibileen is helping Minny by looking for a job, she answers a phone at Leefolts and on the phone is Celia Rae Foote. Celia is a nice, beautiful young lady in her early twenties. She’s looking for a maid, which at this point Aibileen is acting like the person Celia is asking for and she recommends Minny. Celia has never had a maid, and doesn’t know how to act around them. When they meet, Celia is afraid that her house is too much for Minny to clean. Minny thinks that it's absurd

A couple hours later Carl wakes up Fuzzy and Lola. They are at Magic’s cloud castle to surprise her! When they go inside Magic get really excited. They are really bewildered when Magic says, “It’s my birthday tomorrow.” They feel so bad that they forgot about their best friend birthday. So, Carl and Lola scurry to the store to get Magic a birthday present. Magic helps Fuzzy take all of their stuff up to their room and they put it all away. “ I’m super happy to see you Magic it’s been a long time”, says Fuzzy. “ I’m really happy to see you guys to I’ve missed you all so much!!”, says Magic. When Carl and Lola get back everyone wants to go swimming so Magic takes them to the pool. They get to the pool and they all jump in and play around in the pool. After, they are in the pool for a couple of hours, they go get some supper they are so excited for Magic specialty Cotton Candy ice cream! They all love it so much it's their favorite